Let's hope the negotiators realise from this comment that they are dealing with a well-informed and sophisticated opponent.
Ynet relishes the opportunity to dig up something controversial 'straight from the horses mouth' and the grand old man never fails to rise to the opportunity and deliver. It really is a weird tango between the two.

Dear Hashem, please protect us from our enemies, from liers and from senile old rabbis with egos the size of whales after a lifetime of being worshiped by followers who think that the Bible was written in the 18th century.

Differently from the author of this article, Rav Ovadia has the guts to say what he thinks and feel, the 2001 interview has nothing offensive, it's pure true and it's 100% logical that you would like your enemies to disappear if they hate you and are violent to you (which is the case). Now, how this info arrives to the press? Is some shabaknik" attending religious services? Shame on you people!

They can tell this to the Arabs but to Jews all over the world - to both, Sephardim and Ashkenazim - he's one of the greatest of our generation. Who else but a Sephardi understands what Arabs are? Neither Ashkenazim nor the non-Jewish Western world understand the Arab mentality.
May G-d give the Rabbi long life and may he merit to live with Moshiach.

Yossef has it wrong.
Israel's problem is not the corrupt Shoah denier who has American funding and represents no one. Israel's problem is that the Israeli government negotiates with him.
If Yossef wanted to do something useful, he wouldn't have agreed to Netanyahu's anti-Jew building freeze.

is gaining strength. Israeli society itself is not only right-leaning but also racist and demonic.
You people deserve what's coming your way. For us, it's all about the revenge process now, not "land-grab process".

Perhaps the rabbi put it rather inelegantly, but Mahmoud Abbas is a terrorist who was involved in the financing of the attack on the Israeli Olympic athletes.
But somehow it's become forbidden to mention that inconvenient fact in public.

I am a sephardic jew.. and this clown does not represent me. He is the representative of the north african jews and a pathetic one at that. If I was a north african jew, I'd be ashamed to have such a man as a spiritual leader.